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Moonshot releases Kimi K2.6, scaling its agent swarm to 300 sub-agents

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Source: Hugging Face: moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6, an open-source native multimodal agentic model aimed at long-horizon coding and autonomous execution, whose swarm mode scales to 300 sub-agents running 4,000 coordinated steps.

Why it matters

Open models from China kept pace on autonomous coding agents three months after K2.5.

When
20 Apr 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0199
Where
China
Who
Moonshot AI

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Hugging Face. Checked against the source on 10 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Hugging Face

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2026-0199: “Moonshot releases Kimi K2.6, scaling its agent swarm to 300 sub-agents.” wheresthe.ai, 20 Apr 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/cn-moonshot-kimi-k2-6-release-2026-04/ (source: Hugging Face: moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6).

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